Leaky leak: Overwatch’s next event is PvE Insurrection Uprising

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Update:Past Brendan, you fool! It’s actually called ‘uprising’ in English and now has a trailer in that language, available via super-legit sources, and contains all these goodies.

Original story: “Il y a eu une fuite!” That means “There has been a leak” in French, a language which I am now speaking because a trailer for the next Overwatch [official site] event has seeped out onto the French YouTube channel for PlayStation. It’s called Insurrection and pits four characters against waves of Omnic robots on the streets of King’s Row. And it’s due to start tomorrow. Here’s the video, which was taken down by the official channel once they realised their slip-up but has – surprise, surprise – been hastily copied by enterprising Tubefiends.

Zut alors, etc. The only thing I understood from all of that was “King’s Row has fallen”. The event seems to be set during the “Omnic crisis” – that robot versus human war that these rascals always go on about. Or possibly some weird alt-reality. I don’t know, it’s hard enough to keep up with Overlore in English, never mind this. Anyway, Tracer, Reinhardt, Mercy and Torbjorn will be shooting up the streets, taking out creepy spiderbots and the enemy forces of ‘Blackwatch’ – McCree, Genji and … Fatale!? Widowmaker is called Fatale in Overfrench! I feel like I’m learning so much.

Fun fact: That slur is actually pretty offensive. It means you hate people of races liking cultures that aren’t of their own race, race mixing would be included in that. So it’s a sign that you’re a really big racist weather you know it or not.

What’s the source on “Overwatch fighting Blackwatch”? I can’t see any indication of that in the video, and Blackwatch are a subsection of Overwatch. If this is set after the comic that just came out, that contradicts that.. (And also if the translation above is accurate)

BW/OW have friction, but I can’t imagine BW going “Yep, we’re fighting on the Omnics’ side now.”

Hm, looks like the in-game storytelling of Overwatch might go a little beyond “these people used to be a single superhero organization defending the world, but now they just beat eachother up over control points”.

Still far more interested in Agents of Mayhem. Because let’s face it, Overwatch with its non-ceasing multiplayer action isn’t a game for someone who likes to explore big open worlds and stop every other minute to admire the game’s art direction. It’s honestly great that people who’d play Overwatch if it was singleplayer have AoM to look forward to.

Thing is, when AoM was announced last year, someone here on RPS said that it looks like an “Overwatch simulator”, in the sense of Overwatch as the in-universe superhero organization. So far, it sure looks like it… and I felt the urge to mention how it’s super-fitting for me specifically by cutting straight to single-player (I haven’t played PvP multiplayer in… something like three years, if not more). So there :P

Actually, I even read a preview on Polygon recently, where Volition explicitly said that the announcement of Overwatch was their equivalent of the Cuban Missile Crisis – and when Blizzard confirmed it as multiplayer-only, the Voliton guys were like “phew!”

The way that last shot dramatically shows a new Orisa skin is almost like this is an older video and they were originally going to introduce her all sneaky-like with this event. Maybe I’m reading too much into it.

Gave it a go just now, and I must say I rather enjoyed it. It is more of a story mission than just a straight up Horde Mode, and if Blizz made a full co-op campaign in this vein I would very much be up for it.

Sadly, this also means that it’s not very replayable short of just going for harder difficulties or different heroes.

But man, I also made a few regular matches and I really really no longer enjoy Overwatch. It gets on my nerves in ways that few games ever managed to. And the crate system is still the worst fucking unlock system I’ve ever seen in a game ever.